In March last year Lady Lansdowne unveiled our beautiful wooden owl sculpture on our land at Westmead Open Space. The sculpture was made by Ollie Adams, an extremely talented local sculptor who works as a Gardener for Wiltshire College and University Centre. The Owl was created to celebrate a new partnership between our organisations.
read moreWe are delighted to be working in partnership with Age UK Wiltshire to launch this essential new service for older people living in the Chippenham area. We are providing funding for the set up and running costs for the first year of the service, which will be an extension of Age UK Wiltshire’s already successful Swindon-based operation.…
read moreWe understand people’s wish to spend time outside in places like our land at Westmead Open Space during this difficult time. Our Borough Lands are still open but having sought advice from Wiltshire police our Westmead Open Space car park on Pewsham Way will be closed from later today. We urge people to stay local,…
read moreWe are concentrating our support to help with basic welfare provisions and emergency requests/applications relating to Covid-19 only (for example food, transport and electricity/gas). We are only able to help local individuals and groups/organisations that support the Chippenham community. If you are a local organisation or group who thinks we can help you to support the Chippenham community…
read more(Information last checked and updated 4.30pm on 23.3.20) Lots of information and offers of support have already been posted across social media and local websites to help the local Chippenham community during this unprecedented time. Below is a long list with the ones we’ve spotted already that you or you family/friends might find useful. We'll…
read moreOur office building will be shut to staff and visitors from Wednesday 18th March for the foreseeable future however our support for the Chippenham Community will continue, as much as possible, throughout this difficult time. We will be checking our postbox regularly and our team are able to work remotely. We are still accepting grant…
read moreIt was fantastic to see so much fun, colour and talent in Chippenham last weekend with the town full of music, comedy, performance, dancing, photography, art, craft, poetry, talks and a market. We would like to say a HUGE thank you to all of the different individuals, groups and organisations who joined in, took…
read moreSadly we have another weekend of wet and windy weather ahead but fear not Fringe Feb is still on. Many of the Fringe Feb events are already indoors but where it has been possible outside events have been, or are in the process of being, moved inside to new venues. We will keep the below post…
read moreOur Chippenham Ace Group have put together an exciting new event in Chippenham for 3 days at the end of February. From the 27-29 February Chippenham is going to come alive with music, comedy, performance and dancing to photography, craft, poetry, talks and markets. The events take place across multiple venues including outdoors in the…
read moreWould you like to try something new in 2020? We are trialling a new grant scheme called the Enrichment Grant this year to enable Chippenham residents to join a local class, activity or group and try something new in 2020. Have you always fancied taking up a sport, learning a craft, joining an exercise class or…
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